A baby shot twice during a massacre on a maternity ward has miraculously survived the ordeal.
The newborn was hit two times in the leg by suspected members of ISIS as they raided a Kabul maternity ward dressed as police officers on Tuesday.
24 people including mothers, nurses and newborns lost their lives in the bloody attack.
Out of all of the carnage came a sliver of light in the form of a baby who was just three hours old at the time of the attack, The Times reported.
Doctors managed to operate on the child's leg and she is now recovering well.
Tragically her mother died in the attack.
After laying his wife Nazia to rest, her husband Rafiullah named their newborn daughter after her.
Dr Noor ul-Haq Yousafzai, a director at the hospital, told the Times: "We set Nazia's fracture, so she will be able to walk when she grows up.
"But to see a newborn baby, just three hours old, shot twice. Everyone is shocked. This is inhuman."
Another woman gave birth silently while the attack went on around her.
She was helped my a midwife who severed the umbilical chord with her hand.
There were 26 mothers in the hospital on Tuesday.
Eleven of them were killed during the hours-long attack, including three in a delivery room with their newborn babies.
Five were wounded.
Another 10 managed to make their way into 'safe rooms', which are common in Afghanistan.
The Barchi National Hospital is run by international humanitarian organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
The Taliban, who struck a deal with the United States in February clearing the way for the withdrawal of U.S. troops and the end of America's longest war, denied responsibility.
U.S. Special Representative Zalmay Khalilzad, the architect of the pact with the Taliban, blamed Islamic State militants for the attack, saying they opposed any Taliban deal and sought to trigger an Iraq-style sectarian war in Afghanistan.
But Afghan officials in Kabul dismissed the Taliban denial.
"Neither the Taliban hands nor their stained consciousness can be washed of the blood of women, babies & other innocent in the latest senseless carnage," Afghan Vice President Amrullah Saleh said on Twitter.
